[Kst] [Bug 109430] New: Add reserved areas (flow-around objects) + list of fields

[Nicolas Brisset]

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           Summary: Add reserved areas (flow-around objects) + list of
                    fields
           Product: kst
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Solaris
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kst kde org
        ReportedBy: nicolas.brisset eurocopter com


Version:           1.2.0_devel (using KDE 3.4.0, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.4.3
OS:                SunOS (sun4u) release 5.8

In another (internal) tool that is used here, a number of context information are shown around the graph area, and it makes it *really* easier to remember what you are looking at 3 months later, when you have a couple hundred sheets lying around.

I've been thinking about this a bit, and I'd suggest to implement an extra "flow around" property for the forthcoming drawing objects (I'll attach a comment to bug #108027 since it really belongs there). To keep things fairly simple, the area in which graphs can be drawn would be the internal rectangle delimited by all such objects and it could be left up to the user to put them on the sides...
Now, if that is implemented, the next thing would be to have special fields that can be used and substituted at drawing time (very much like date/time/name/etc... fields in your favorite word processor). For a start, I'd include:
- list of datasources in use
- date
- time
- page number
- total number of pages
- user name
- organization
- user e-mail
- I suppose it wouldn't be too difficult to allow the user to add custom fields as well...